El Rancho del Rio Auction!

El Rancho del Rio Auction!

El Rancho del Rio Auction!

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This 187-acre ranch in San Juan Capistrano, California, was built making full use of local stone and wood resources. Designed in the hacienda style with red barrel tile roofs, stone walls and patios, the gated entrance drive passes a small vineyard with its nearby wine and tequila processing building. Views are breathtaking with one spot perfect for meditation with a bench at the top of the hill where one can overlook the valley and mountains to the Pacific from a bird’s eye advantage.

The main house, in all its elegant rusticity, has wonderful large rooms for entertaining with bar, billiards, chef’s kitchen and top-of-the-line appliances. There are four bedrooms, six baths and it has large spaces for entertaining in the formal dining room that seats 25 and informal dining on the large terrace. Guest quarters consist of three casitas and a guest house overlooking a swimming pond with dock that is also well-stocked with fish.

Rancho del Rio has some interesting history for dinner party conversation. The home received a good deal of publicity in the mid 1980s when a noteworthy drug bust revealed that the ranch was being used as the headquarters of a marijuana kingpin who was a major supplier to the West Coast. This gave President George H. W. Bush the opportunity to fly in via helicopter for a nationally televised speech from the mansion about the U.S. Government’s War on Drugs. Not many people can say a United States president landed in their front yard and gave a speech.

Other buildings in the auction include an equestrian barn with five paddocks, and a caretaker’s three-bedroom, two-bath house, a mission-style tower and a helipad

El Rancho del Rio, over 187 acres in the heart of Orange County, previously listed at $22 million, the auction will be held March 18th. Selling without reserve.

Source: www.conciergeauctions.com